Around the World

Summer is drawing to a close, and with it ends another season that often turns lab life on its head and has changed many people’s lives: summer student season. As the students from around the world finish off their projects, present their work to their fellow students and stock up on lab t-shirts, some leave with the certainty that they will return to do particle physics one day.

Director's Corner

Among the LCC collaboration changes that will be put in place as of January 2017 will be the abolition of the Regional Directors. In this week’s corner, Brian Foster, soon-to-be former-European Director, explains what he has learned in 14 years of dedication towards managing the linear collider project, and gives some advice for the future.

July 2016 saw two science festivals held back-to-back in Japan’s northeastern region of Tohoku. July 17th 2016 was Science Day in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, where organizations gathered at Tohoku University to share the joy of science with visitors both young and old (and all in between). In Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture then hosted the Iwate Science Symposium on July 18th.
(Japanese translation available at the end of the article)

岩手県の一関観光協会はＩＬＣ誘致の機運を盛り上げようと、９月８日、国内の有力候補地となっている北上高地の地質や金山開発の歴史を学ぶ日帰りバスツアーを実施する。(Ichinoseki Tourism Association will conduct a one-day bus tour to foster momentum to invite the ILC to the region on 8 September. Participants will learn the geological character of the candidate site, and history of gold mine development)

Table of content:
Learning about the importance of experiments at junior high – First Science Café for this fiscal year – ILC Symposium in Oshu City – Summer camp in ILC accelerator and physics/detectors 2016 – Summaries of other news
Ichinoseki Lives Cosmopolitan (introduction of international residents) – Notices – Enquiries

加速器関連産業への参入を目指す企業などに加速器の技術に触れてもらおうと開催したもので、県内外から参加した産学官関係者が国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）の最重要装置である超伝導加速空洞の技術などに理解を深め、参入の可能性を探った。
(These seminars are about the technology used in accelerators and are aimed at businesses that would like to get involved with the accelerator industry. At this seminar, officials from industry, academia, and government learned more about SRF cavities, the key piece of technology within the ILC. They also looked for ways to get involved.)Read full translation provided by Iwate & the ILC website here.

At the opening ceremony for the office, Vice-governor of Iwate, Mr. Shigeki Chiba, said, “This office will start as a hub of cooperation for all those involved with the ILC in Iwate. Eventually we’d like to make the office into a center for the ILC project as a whole, to play a role in the project coming to fruition.”
(Japanese translation available at the end of the article)

内陸部と沿岸部を結ぶ幹線道路網の整備促進活動、国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）誘致活動など今年度事業計画を決めた。
(They established their project plan for the current fiscal year, which includes improving the infrastructure of the highway network that links the inland region of Iwate to the coast, as well as working to realize the International Linear Collider (ILC).)Read full translation provided by Iwate & the ILC website here.

The Asian country has expressed the willingness to host the International Linear Collider (ILC), which is designed to have a 31-kilometer-long track and can better provide cleaner collisions for precision measurements.

５人は同日夜、東京駅で解団式を行い東北新幹線で帰県しそれぞれ帰宅。１２月に盛岡市で開くＩＬＣワークショップで成果を発表する。
(The five students held a goodbye ceremony at Tokyo Station on the same day, and then took the Tohoku Shinkansen train back to Iwate where they returned home. They will present on their trip during the ILC workshop held in Morioka City in December.)Read full translation provided by Iwate & the ILC website here.

The event unveiled t-shirts, keychains, ballpoint pens and other goods with Hello Kitty sitting on an ILC cryomodule, which contains the cavity where electrons and positrons accelerate. The goods will be sold first in the Tohoku region starting on August 15th. A portion of proceeds will be donated to efforts to bring the ILC to Japan.Read full translation provided by Iwate & the ILC website here .

ＩＬＣ誘致を契機に何をしたいかイメージを明確にしてほしい」と強調。関連施設の建設に関わることで「世界に向けた絶好のショーウインドーになる」と参入を呼び掛けた。
(“You need to have a clear vision of what you want to do, using the ILC as an opportunity.” He called for businesses to get involved in the construction of related facilities, saying “This will become a great ‘show window’ to showcase [local businesses] internationally.”)Read full translation provided by Iwate & the ILC website here.

会場の同市大手町の一関文化センターに、一関・平泉地域の中学３年生６５人が集合。一関市の勝部修市長が「大人になったとき、ＩＬＣ誘致が実現した一関がどう変わるか想像しよう。心に感動を覚えて帰って来てほしい」と激励した。
(65 middle school students from Hiraizumi and Ichinoseki gathered for the ceremony at the Ichinoseki Cultural Center in Daito. Ichinoseki Mayor Osamu Katsube passionately encouraged the students, saying “Imagine how Ichinoseki will change when you are adults and the ILC has been made a reality. Be inspired during your trip.”)Read full translation provided by Iwate & the ILC website here.

中高生や市民ら約１００人が参加。藤本氏は実験の意義を「全てが解明されていない宇宙、自然の法則を見つけることだ」と強調。渡部氏は「宇宙の大部分を占める暗黒物質と暗黒エネルギーの正体を解明してほしい」と期待を寄せた。
(About 100 people including middle and high school students and residents. Dr. Fujimoto emphasized that significance of the ILC was to “discover new laws of nature and space that have not been totally explained.” Mr. Watanabe expressed hopes that the ILC could “bring to light the true identity of dark matter and energy, which take up most of the universe.”)Read full translation provided by Iwate & the ILC website here .